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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject: Re: Change to passwd in cygwin-1.7.10-1 breaks ssh-host-config
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:48:05 -0800
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On 2/9/2012 3:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  9 01:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 2/8/2012 3:30 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Feb  8 13:12, Tom Schutter wrote:
>>>> It appears that the "-v" option to passwd was changed to "-V" in
>>>> cygwin-1.7.10.1.  This indirectly breaks the ssh-host-config script.
>>>> The actual breakage is in the csih script.
>>>> [...]
>>>> $ grep "passwd -v" /usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh
>>>>          passwd_has_expiry_flags=$(passwd -v | /usr/bin/awk '/^passwd
>>>> /{print ( $3>=
>>>> 1.5 ) ? "yes" : "no";}')
>>> Chuck, can we please remove this test in csih amd release a new version
>>> ASAP?  The expiry stuff is from 2003 so we can safely assume its
>>> existence.
>> Especially as csih-0.9.x requires cygwin-1.7.
>>
>> I've uploaded a csih-0.9.5-1 as a 'test' release.  Changes:
>>
>> * native/Makefile: Avoid -mno-cygwin and gcc3; use mingw cross compiler.
>> * native/winProductName.c (GetOSDisplayString): Support
>>    Windows 8 and Windows Server 8. Improve support for various
>>    Microsoft OS products.
>> * New functions csih_is_windows8(), csih_is_exactly_windows8(),
>>    and csih_is_exactly_windows8server().
>> * In csih_account_has_necessary_privileges(), no longer attempt to
>>    validate membership in Administrators group -- the test doesn't
>>    work properly on domains anyway. Just try to set the necessary
>>    rights and report error if the operation fails. Reported by
>>    Corinna Vinschen.
>> * In csih_create_privileged_user(), don't attempt to check whether
>>    /usr/bin/passwd has the -e option; all versions of passwd shipped
>>    with cygwin-1.7.x support it. Reported by Tom Schutter.
>> * Fixed bug related to the various existing csih_is_exactly_*
>>    functions.
> Cool, thanks.  Additionally I added the -v option back to passwd so
> that older csih scripts don't fail either for that reason.  It's
> not visible in the usage but passwd diligently prints the version
> information.  I've just generated a snapshot which contains this
> change.  See the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
What's the status of this? I saw this error too but I assumed it was 
because the machine I was on had two different versions of Cygwin. 
Checking my personal machine, on which I only have one version of Cygwin 
- 1.7.10, I have the call to passwd -v in 
/usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh. Also:

$ cygcheck -c csih
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
csih                 0.9.4-1        OK
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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